Syzygospora effibulata (Ginns & Sunhede) Ginns
no common name
Carcinomycetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Carcinomycetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Also listed in Crusts Category. Syzygospora effibulata grows as a thin film on the surface of tumor-like growths of the caps and stems of Gymnopus dryophilus. The description derived from Ginns(6) except where noted.
Microscopic:
spores (5.5)6-8(10) x 1.8-2.5 microns, cylindric to narrowly obovate, in side view cylindric, rarely suballantoid (somewhat curved sausage-shaped), broadly attached to basidia; blastoconidia of two types, some nearly round to broadly elliptic, 2-3.5 x 1.5-2 microns, "formed by budding from basidiospores or, more commonly, from the apices of conidiophores, others rather few, cylindrical to narrowly ellipsoid, up to 13 x 2 microns formed on conidiophores"; basidia 2(3)-spored, cylindric, (25)35-55 x 5-7 microns, sterigmata up to 5(7) microns long with the tips containing a refractive oily deposit; hyphae colorless, thin-walled, simple-septate, 2-4 microns wide, clamp connections not observed, (Ginns), basidiospores inamyloid, smooth, (Oberwinkler)
Notes:
It is found at least in BC and Sweden.
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Other Syzygospora species from the Pacific Northwest are described in the Crust Category: 1) Syzygospora mycetophila (NB, ON, PQ, NY, NH, VT, Mexico) which also grows on the surface of galls on Gymnopus dryophilus, is indistinguishable macroscopically but has 4-spored basidia, clamp connections, and more ellipsoid spores, (Ginns), 2) Syzygospora tumefaciens (NB, Denmark, Sweden) which also grows on galls of Gymnopus dryophilus as well as galls of Rhodocollybia butyracea, is indistinguishable macroscopically but has broadly elliptic spores 6-8(9) x 3-4 microns, obliquely attached to 4-spored basidia, and has clamp connections, (Ginns), 3) Syzygospora norvegica (found in Norway) grows on hypertrophied gills of Rhodocollybia butyracea, (Ginns), 4) Syzygospora subsolida (as well as S. solida recorded from Colorado) grows on hypertrophied caps of Marasmius pallidocephalus (Ginns), 5) Syzygospora bachmannii Diederich & M.S. Christ. grows on Cladonia lichen and is distinguished from the other heterobasidiomycetes growing on lichen by its aseptate basidia: it has been reported from BC, AK, Europe, Africa (Madeira), Asia (New Guinea), and South America (Guyana), (Hafellner), 6) Syzygospora physciacearum has basidia 24-55 microns (Diederich(1)) and grows on Heterodermia, Physcia, and Physconia lichens, (Diederich(2)).Habitat
on Gymnopus dryophilus caps and stems
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Carcinomyces effibulatus Ginns & Sunhede) Oberw. & Bandoni
Christiansenia effibulata Ginns & Sunhede